Best of The New Stack — September 2021

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   Facebook’s Golang Object Relational Mapper Moves to the Linux Foundation – The New Stack

   Ent, the Go entity framework originally created at Facebook and open sourced in 2019, has joined the Linux Foundation. Ent helps developers work on complicated back-end applications, where they might have to deal with a large number of entity types. After a couple of years of being open source and seeing increased adoption and participation in the community, Facebook has decided to move the Ent project under Linux Foundation’s governance.

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   Build a WebAssembly App with Rust – The New Stack

   In this tutorial, we’re going to combine the power of WebAssembly and the flexibility of Rust programming language to build a very simple “Hello, World!” app. I’ll be demonstrating on Ubuntu Desktop 20.04, so if you use a different platform for your development needs, you will have to alter the process (specifically the installation steps) in order to make it work.

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   Apple’s Browser Engine Ban Is Holding Back Web App Innovation – The New Stack

   Apple blogger John Gruber suggested web developers “should not be trying to create a ‘native like app’ in a web browser’ Gruber said this in relation to increasing criticism of Apple for not allowing competing browser engines on its iOS platform. By forcing browser vendors like Google, Microsoft and Mozilla to use the WebKit browser engine, Apple is deliberately restricting the functionality of web apps.

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